It’s been a long cold winter, and my toes have officially frozen off. Yikes. I know Belgium is nowhere where near the negative double-digit temps of Boston, but jezus can a girl get a little sun here!? Nearly every day is covered and cloudy… The sun doesn’t even stay awake longer than office hours, so yeah, we’re pretty much just zombies getting dressed and walking around in the dark here. Thank god for Will Smith’s instagram, feeding us those feel good videos. Inevitably, there are pieces that you fall back and back and back on, and these pair of pants…

As the cold winter weather grows in strength, I always fall into a rut with my clothes. It happens year after year, a stretch of time when getting dressed becomes more a mission of bodily warmth than creative style. I despise it. In these mornings I open the closet and my hands, operating on auto-pilot, reach for the tank top + wooly knit combo that worked so well yesterday, and the day before, and OH YEAH, the day before that. Y’know sometimes in life, you just need a quick and nasty slap in the face – to remind you that…

UTILITA STATE

Personal style blog, where fashion meets function. Posts are dedicated to the belief that a single utility item can go a long way, illustrating how you can use one item in both professional and leisure settings.